[Apocryphon]

The meme that this sub is a hive of bot activity is interesting- I wonder who came up with those allegations first, and if they have similar conspiracy theories towards other popular subs such as r/WallStreetBets, or other toxic subs like r/CSCareerQuestions

[pydry]

I've seen some minimum wage discussions on general topic forums (e.g. news) where the top 40-50 comments were vehemently against raising it.

I suspect these were driven by bot votes.

Any "funny" picture with a well known brand obviously placed in it? Definitely.

By contrast thes (the current top 2 posts) seem pretty organic to me though:

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/s07qh6/presented_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/s07uk4/i_work_at_...

[gruez]

> I've seen some minimum wage discussions on general topic forums (e.g. news) where the top 40-50 comments were vehemently against raising it.

source?

>By contrast thes (the current top 2 posts) seem pretty organic to me though:

what makes these more organic than the ones in "general topic forums"? Is it just because "well obviously most people would be pro-minimum wage, therefore any comment that's for minimum wage is organic and any that's against is bots"

[the_only_law]

The whole “foreign intelligence psyop” theory seems dumb, but is par for the course on HN at this point

I wouldn’t be surprised though, if there’s a lot of karma farming, some of it even automated.

[Apocryphon]

It just feels like the allegations speak more of the character of the allegers than the alleged. Why pick on disgruntled workers? This has a faintly quaint air to it, a real Sacco and Vanzetti vibe. I wonder what the accusers think of Dilbert or Office Space. Or more pertinently, of Occupy Wall Street, which was but ten years ago.

[throw3434053]

'Foreign'... good one